For Sony's Ghostbusters presentation at CinemaCon, the lights shut off, and green spotlights started flickering. Footage then played of the Ecto 1 cutting corners in Las Vegas up to the front of Caesars. The footage was followed by Paul Feig and Ghostbusters 2016 stars Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig on stage to banter around. "The originals loom large for me, I love an underdog story," said McCarthy. McKinnon described her time on the set dealing with her costume as "I was pleased there was room for my crouch to breath this summer. Thanks for coming!"

The fivesome then launched clips and more extra footage. One scene featured the lead-up to where Wiig, McCarthy and McKinnon encounter the ghost at the museum, before it pukes slime on Wiig's character, Erin Gilbert. Another clip previewed the scene where Jones asks for a job at Ghostbusters HQ. Attendees also got to see the Ghostbusters' receptionist Kevin (Chris Hemsworth) get possessed by a ghost and pop wheelies on a motorcycle, as well as a sneak peek of a very special scene...

In the scene, ghosts are swarming Times Square and the Ghostbusters wave down a taxi. The city is being overrun by ghosts but this cab driver is unflappable. He turns around... and its the one and only Dan Aykroyd! An original Ghostbusters cast member! He turns around in his seat to say to his ghostbustin' passengers that "I ain't afraid of no ghosts"! Wiig quickly corrects him, "Sir, I believe it's correctly said, I am not afraid of any ghost"!

In all, the movies VFX were spectacular - and lucky attendees got to see a new big ghost villain, a bobbing Jack-in-the-Box type head as well as footprint that could belong to Mr. Stay Puff!

Two years after the all-female reboot of the beloved 1980s franchise arrived, original star Dan Aykroyd is now promising that a true Ghostbusters 3, starring the three surviving OG ‘busters, is on its way. Many thought the death of Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler, in 2014 had put paid to a proper reunion, but Aykroyd’s comments suggest that we can look forward to him teaming up with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson in the near future.

While speaking on The Big Interview With Dan Rather, the man fans know as Dr. Ray Stantz, the heart of the Ghostbusters agreed with Rather’s wording that he was talking about making a “full-blown third Ghostbusters,” with an unknown writer already currently working on the script. Obviously, Aykroyd wouldn’t let on to anything about story details, but he did tease that it’ll try and recapture what worked so well about the original films while giving it a “21st century” twist.

“I think we got a story that’s gonna work. It’s being written by a really goo…

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If so, there's good news from the world of Gozer — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works!

Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”